From John Attard I reproduce below a message sent to me by Rose Senior, author of 'The Experience of Language Teaching', on the subject currently under...
Dear John/Rose "In my view the terms teacher-centredness and learner-centredness are useful ones for helping teachers examine their classroom behaviour, and...
It occurs to me that I have had experiences of listening to hour-long lectures which stimulated me and made me think and explore my own thoughts and...
JWShephear@...
Oct 4, 2006 9:36 am
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I would like to add a teacher training/education perspective to Alan Waters' and John Shepheard's excellent posts. In my experience, observers operating with a...
Dear Marcela Thanks for this. I think what you say shows very clearly how the road to learning-centredness (i.e., creating a classroom climate in which the...
Dear all, I'm an EL teacher in Kazakhstan. When I ask my students why they want to learn English, they usually say 'because it's an international language.'...
Lang
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Oct 6, 2006 5:30 am
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It's hard to disagree with Alan and Marcela on the need to see the learner as a "whole person". However, satisfying "Maslow's hierarchy of needs" is not the...
I read with interest the post from Naila in Kazakhstan. I'd be very interested to see if other list members come up with any linguistic reasons for the role...
One of John Attard's suggestions is: "Regular Observation. This may sound obvious but how many DOS's find the time to observe lessons with any regularity?...
The linguist Max Weinreich wrote in 1945 that "a language is a dialect with an army and navy". In the same light, an international language may be defined (as...
I absolutely agree with Simon Gill. The reason English has become a global language is for historical reasons and because of current power relations. It has...
Costas Gabrielatos wrote: "I have argued before that the low frequency of observations can be amply compensated for by an increase in the quality, that is,...
John Attard wrote: " Regular observations will guard against backsliding by the teacher and, for the protection of that same teacher, they provide the...
Costas writes I'm afraid that if a teacher needs the Damocles' sword of regular observations to keep him/her being learning-centred, then the whole affair...
Susmita writes: "There are times when there are fundamental problems with teachers' professionalism. Observation can be used to check this." Sad, but true....
Do you really have such a choice of teachers to be able to always choose only the best? Valnea ... From: "Costas Gabrielatos" <c.gabrielatos@...> ...
Valnea Bressan
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Oct 9, 2006 6:37 pm
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Valnea asks (re. my previous post): "Do you really have such a choice of teachers to be able to always choose only the best?" The choice is not (I hope) only...
I believe this discussion is going in a direction which is beneficial to understanding the tensions which arise between different stakeholders in language...
I may be missing the point here, but as well as checking that the teacher is being learner-centred in their classroom behaviour, do we not also have a...
Jan Benjamin wrote: "I may be missing the point here, but as well as checking that the teacher is being learner-centred in their classroom behaviour, do we not...
5 October, 2006 Hello and welcome to the newsletter for the BBC | British Council site, teaching English. This week we have five new features for you. A new...
Nik Peachey
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Oct 10, 2006 12:58 pm
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Costas Gabrielatos is right in saying: "So, I don't think we are ignoring the use of lesson observation as a learning tool, we are just focusing on some of its...
Dear John I agree that most online discussions would perhaps reach consensus (or an impasse) a lot sooner if contributors took full account of previous posts, ...
Dear John, By any chance, have you been blamed or sanctioned for something? Or, are you trying to find support or validation for some type of sanction against...
Dear Costas, Your posting brought some much-needed comic relief to our sombre debate - "thread-centredness vs. poster-centredness" ticked my funny bone. ...
Hi everyone, from a chilly spring day in Auckland. We're getting a little impatient with you guys hanging on to those last vestiges of summer up there. Haven't...
Hello and welcome to the newsletter for the BBC | British Council site, teaching English. Here are details of the latest updates to the site. This week we have...
Nik Peachey
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Oct 19, 2006 9:22 am
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Hello, I am new in the group and would like to start sending/receiving messages from colleagues to interact with as many people as possible. Kind regards, ...
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